Purple Challenge and Day out

In my other cardmaking group this week one of the Ladies loves the color purple so she wanted to see more cards done with the color purple,  In that same group one of the ladies had their Mother and Father in law get into a car accident and the Mother passed away and the Father is in the hospital with very bad injuries, so I made this card for her.

Memory Box -- Long Stem Lavender die
Martha Stewart -- Border punch
Taylored Expressions -- care and comfort sentiment stamp

Yesterday was just beautiful and my hubby actual had the day off so we decided to head out on a drive, well my hubby had seen something about white squirrels in a town about 2 hour drive from here so he said do you want to check it out and I said sure, of course he saw many things along the way to take pictures of so it took us a bit longer to get there, we went to the park that they said had them and no such luck, we sat and had our lunch we packed thinking while we were sitting there eating we might spot one.  After we walked the whole park and nothing.  We stopped and asked people where we might see them and so they directed us to a park outside of town but no luck.

On our drive back home we thought we would stop at some of the places that we didn't stop on the way there.  My hubby loved all the vines and things growing up around this bridge, it is an old one not in use anymore, if you look to the left you can see the new bridge and road they built right beside it.

Here is a closeup of all the vines and such. I wonder how long it took for all of this to grow around the bridge.

I am assuming this is a replica of a tavern from the 1800's

Here is my hubby inside that opening in the middle, must have been the stable for their horses while they stayed there.

It was time to get going the sun was setting fast.

Hope you all have a blessed and Lovely Sunday.
Thanks so much for stopping by and all your sweet comments,

Connie

Material Challenge

In this challenge we were to use material on our cards, well I knew right away what I wanted to try, you see I bought a remnant of Linen material at JoAnns last year some time, just to try stamping on it and I never did end up trying it so this was just the push I needed.  I had already purchased some Memento Luxe ink that said good for stamping on fabric, all you have to do is heat set it, so I just zapped it with my heat tool, and then I had to decide what I was going to use for coloring, well I gave my spectrum noir alcohol pens a try and although they bled a little bit, I think they worked pretty good.  I also added some felt flowers.  I cut both the linen and the felt with dies and I was really surprised how well the linen cut for me.

I ran the fabric through my xyron to add adhesive and then added it to the cardstock layer tag.

Have you tried stamping on fabric and if you have what medium did you use to color in your image?

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I hope you have a fantastic weekend!!

Connie

 stamped on Linen Fabric using Studio G stamp with Memento Luxe ink, heat set with my heat gun, colored with Spectrum noir markers
Poppystamps -- Pinpoint Main street tags die
Felt flowers cut from cutlebug die, hand sewn beads to them
Martha Stewart -- Leaves punch
K&co. -- Blue Awning paper
Ribbon and Twine

Recycle Trash Challenge

We were to use items on our card that we would normally throw away, that isn't a papercraft item.

Here is my list of trash that I used:

Bread clip (tag)
Packaging from a die (clear acetate that I added Alcohol inks to)
Color Catcher sheets for laundry (flowers)
mini beads from old necklace bought at flea market

The stamping of the stems was on the back of the acetate piece and I also colored them in with markers too. The bread clip was stamped with stazon ink so it would adhere to the slick surface of the bread clip

Stampin up -- Stems stamps
Spellbinders -- Curved Rectangles
Alcohol inks -- Sunshine yellow, carmel and Pearl mixative
Taylored Expressions -- many mini occasions stamped sentiment
Heartfelt creations -- Vintage Floret die
Cuttlebug -- D'vine Swirl embossing folder

Do you see items in your day to day life that you think could work with your hobby, I am looking at things in a whole new way all the time.  I have a few tissue boxes saved that I loved the pictures on them, I need to make some cards from them one of these days.  If you have any ideas of items that could be used on a card let me know, maybe that will be my next challenge :)

The weather is warming up here, by Saturday we are to reach 60!!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and glad you are enjoying some of the challenges our group is having.

Connie

Using a mold on card and stamping background challenges

I managed to complete two challenges to share today, the first we were to make a mold by using hot glue and then stamping into it and using it on a card, well as you can see by my attempt I used way to thick of glue and pressed my stamp down to far and, so I ended up cutting it out of the mold and just coloring the hot glue with markers and white pit pen and then added the glitter glue to the wings.

Here is the bad mold I made.

Here is the card I made from the butterfly mold

I had to use a stamp set and do a little masking and just stamp the happy and day separately and then took a alphabet set and spelled out Bee to get this sentiment.

Cosmo cricket  Everyafter paper, embossed with Paper Studio, honeycomb embossing folder that had been inked.
Hero Arts -- It's your day sentiment stamp set for happy and day
Martha Stewart -- Sansserif font stamp set for Bee
American crafts -- twine
Spellbinders -- Hexagon dies
Button flower

Next up we were suppose to stamp our own background but the stamps could be no larger that 2 inches.

Inkadinkado -- Garden delight stamp set
Sizzix -- Tags, rounded die
Gina Marie stamps -- Birthday words stamp set
Forver Flowers
Bazzill brad
Gems

It has been fun doing a new challenge every day, if you try any of these yourself, let me know so I can come and see what your results were.

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

Using Negative

I managed another challenge, this time we were to use the negative from cutting out a die on our card.  I cut out the Dogwood blossom and put a couple of scrap paper behind it.  I have seen these done a lot but don't think I have ever done it before and it is a great way to get two cards out of one cut, now I can use the actual cut out on another card.

I am sharing this card with Stephanie's Roses of Inspiration, stop by and see what others are up to today!

It is kind of hard to tell but the green paper I used behind the leaves has a bit of linen texture on it.

Memory Box -- Dogwood Blossom die
Paper Smooches -- Happy Birthday sentiment stamp
American Crafts -- Jute
Making Memories -- Button

Another great way to use up some of our left over scrap pieces.

If you are looking at this post today January 26th, HSN (home shopping network)  is having Craft supplies almost all day.  I DVR them all, they started at Midnight eastern time and run almost throughout the whole day.  I watched the first hour while having my breakfast this morning and they already have a new never before seen mini machine for small dies and embossing folders and some cool glitter pens, the pens are on the expensive side but everything you buy today is only $4.95 shipping for your total order, that is a great deal if you are picking up a few items.  I don't buy a lot through them but I love seeing the new products being shown and there are always great ideas for cards.

Hope you have a great day and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie